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Acts passed at the third session of the Thirteenth Congress of the United States, : begun and held in the city of Washington, in the District of Columbia, on the nineteenth day of September, one thousand eight hundred and fourteen. : Published by authority

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Corporate Author: United States.

Date of Publication: 1815.

Call Number: Book 252 1815

Alternate Title: Acts passed at the first session of the Thirteenth Congress of the United States.

Corporate Author: United States.

Uniform Title: Laws, etc.

Place of Publication: Washington [D.C.]

Publisher: Printed by Rapine and Elliot.,

Date of Publication: 1815.

Physical Description: 429 6,[2], 202, 30 p. ; 23 cm.

Notes: Includes treaties between the United States and various Indian nations.; Acts of the first and second sesssions follow the title page.; Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.; Yeates's signature at top of title page.; Book number 252 as assigned by Yeates.; Shaw & Shoemaker

Subjects: Session laws - United States.; Session laws.; United States.; Full leather (Binding); Gilt title on maroon spine label (Binding)

Additional Author: Yeates, Jasper,

Additional Corporate Author: Rapine and Elliot,

Place: United States District of Columbia Washington.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection

Call Number: Book 252 1815

American convention for promoting the abolition of slavery and improving the condition of the African race at Philadelphia, in October, 1819, to the people of the United States

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Date of Publication: 1819.

Call Number: 326 P544 1819; 326 A512

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Place of Publication: Philadelphia

Publisher: Printed by S.W. Conrad,

Date of Publication: 1819.

Physical Description: 43 p. ; 23 cm.

Notes: Meeting convened in Philadelphia, October 15, 1819.; Report from the Columbia, Pa. Society for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery, p. 11-14.

Subjects: Slavery - United States; Abolitionists - United States

Location: Lancaster History Library - Rare Books; Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 326 P544 1819; 326 A512

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The American genealogist; a monthly magazine of genealogy and local history

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Date of Publication: 1899-1900.

Call Number: 905.29 AGM

Responsibility: Edited ... by Thomas Allen Glenn.

Place of Publication: Ardmore, Pa

Publisher: T. A. Glenn,

Date of Publication: 1899-1900.

Physical Description: cover-title, 351 p. ; 25 cm.

Dates of Publication: Vol. 1, no. 2 (April 1899)-v. 1, no. [12] (Feb. 1900).

Notes: Title from caption.

Subjects: Genealogy - Periodicals.; United States - Genealogy - Periodicals.

Additional Author: Glenn, Thomas Allen,

Additional Title: American genealogist (Ardmore, Pa.)

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 905.29 AGM

The American law journal and miscellaneous repertory

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Date of Publication: 1808-1810.

Call Number: B ook 409 1809; Book 408 1808; Book 410 1810; Book 410 1813; Book 410 1814

Alternate Title: American law journal

Place of Publication: Philadelphia, Pa. : Boston, Mass

Publisher: W.P. Farrand and Co. ; Farrand, Mallory and Co.,

Date of Publication: 1808-1810.

Physical Description: 3 volumes.

Dates of Publication: Vol. 1, no. 1 (Jan. 1808)-v. 3, no. 11/12 (Oct. 1810).; Vol 4 published under title The American Law Journal, vol.IV being the first of a new series, Philadelphia, published by Moses Thomas, Sergeant Hall, printer, 1813.; Vol 5 published under title The American Law Journal vol V being the second of a new serices, Baltimore, published by Edward J. Coale, et al, printed by William Fry, 1814.

Notes: Title from running title.; Editor: John E. Hall.; Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.; Yeates's signature at top of title page.

Subjects: Law - United States - Periodicals.; Law.; United States.; Periodicals.; Full blind tooled leather (Binding); Gilt title on maroon spine label (Binding)

Additional Author: Hall, John E.; Yeates, Jasper,

Location: Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection

Call Number: B ook 409 1809; Book 408 1808; Book 410 1810; Book 410 1813; Book 410 1814

An abridgment of the laws of Pennsylvania, from the year one thousand seven hundred, to the second day of April, one thousand eight hundred and eleven. : With references to reports of judicial decisions in the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania

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Corporate Author: Pennsylvania.

Date of Publication: 1811.

Call Number: Bookk 306 1811

Responsibility: By John Purdon, Junr.

Corporate Author: Pennsylvania.

Place of Publication: Philadelphia

Publisher: Published by Farrand, Hopkins, Zantzinger, and Company. Fry and Kammerer, printers.,

Date of Publication: 1811.

Physical Description: xxxi, [1], 637, [1] p. ; 24 cm.

Notes: Copyright Oct. 25, 1811 by Farrand, Hopkins, Zantzinger and Company.; Last page blank.; "The Constitution of the United States of America."--p. [vii]-xviii.; "The Constitution of the commonwealth of Pennsylvania."--p. [xix]-xxxi.; "Report of the judges of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania of the English statutes, which are in force in the commonwealth of Pennsylvania; and of those of the said statutes which, in their opinion, ought to be incorporated into the statute laws of the said commonwealth."--p. [562]-585. Signed on p. 585: Wm. Tilghman. J. Yeates. Thomas Smith. H.H. Brackenridge. December 14, 1808.; "Index."--p. [587]-637.; Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.; Yeates's signature at top of title page.; Book number 306 as assigned by Yeates.; Shaw, R.R. American bibliography,

Subjects: Law - Pennsylvania - Digests.; Annotations and citations (Law) - Pennsylvania.; Constitutions - United States.; Constitutions - Pennsylvania.; Annotations and citations (Law); Constitutions.; Law.; Pennsylvania.; United States.; Leather bindings (Binding); Blind tooled leather (Binding); Fillet tools (Binding); Lettering pieces (Binding); Gold tooled leather (Binding); Digests.; Full blind-tooled leather (Binding); Gilt title on maroon spine label (Binding)

Additional Author: Purdon, John,; Yeates, Jasper,

Additional Corporate Author: Pennsylvania. Supreme Court.; United States.; Pennsylvania.; Farrand, Hopkins, Zantzinger, and Co.,; Fry and Kammerer,

Place: United States Pennsylvania Philadelphia.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection

Call Number: Bookk 306 1811

An accurate and interesting account of the hardships and sufferings of that band of heroes, who traversed the wilderness in the campaign against Quebec in 1775

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Author: Henry, John Joseph,

Date of Publication: 1812.

Call Number: 090 L244g 1812

Responsibility: by John Joseph Henry, Esq.

Author: Henry, John Joseph,

Place of Publication: Lancaster, Pa

Publisher: printed by William Greer ,

Date of Publication: 1812.

Physical Description: 225 p. ; 16 cm.

Subjects: Canadian Invasion, 1775-1776.; United States

Location: Lancaster History Library - Rare Books

Call Number: 090 L244g 1812

An Address of members of the House of Representatives of the Congress of the United States, to their constituents, on the subject of the war with Great-Britain

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Date of Publication: [1812?].

Call Number: Book 461 n.d.

Place of Publication: Philadelphia

Publisher: Printed at the United States' Gazette

Date of Publication: [1812?].

Physical Description: 24 pages ; 22 cm

Notes: Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.; Signature: To Judge Yeates from his obet., James Milner [partially clipped]; Book number 461 as assigned by Yeates.; Bound with Proposals, by Farrand and Nichholas for publishing by subscription ...The American Review of history and politics. Place not identified: publisher not identified, 1810 -- Proposals for publishing by subscription, a translation from the French, of. LeSages's historical genealogial chronological and geographical atlas. Philadelphia: Jane Aiken, 1819 -- A description of the chain bridge; invented by Judge Finley, of Fayette County Pennsylvania...Uniontown, Pa: William Campbell, 1811 -- The pioneeer, vol. I, no. IV, May 5, 1812 -- The Port folio (new series) by Oliver Oldschool, Esq. Philadelphia, Saturday, March 12, 1808 -- Annual discourse, delivered before the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts on the 13th of November 1810 by Joseph Hopkinson. Philadelphia: published by Bradford and Inskeep; Inseeep and Bradford, New York: and William M'Ilhenry, Boston, Sweeny & M'Kenzie, printers, 1810 -- Reply to Mr. Burke's invective against Mr. Cooper, and Mr. Watt, in the House of Commons on the30th of April, 1792, by Thomas Cooper. London: printed for J. Johnson, in St. Paul's Church Yard; and M Falkner and Co., Manchester, M,DCC,XCII (1792) -- Narrative of the proceedings against Thomas Cooiper, exquire, president judge of the eighth judiciary district of Pennsylvania, on a charge of official misconduct. Lancaster: printed by William Hamilton, 1811; -- [Narrative on the title of West Florida]. Place not identified:published not identified. date not identified -- Observations on the conduct of our executive towards Spain. Place not identified:published not identified. date not identified -- Letters, addressed to the people of Pennsylvania respecting the internal improvement, of the commonwealth; by means of roads and canals by William J. Duane. Philadelphia: printed by Jane Aiken, No 71, North Third Street, 18ll --An address of the members of theHouse of Representatives, of the Congress of the United States, to their consitutents, on the subject of the war with Great Britain. Philadelphia: printed at the office of the United States' Gazette, date not identified; Documents and facts, relative to military events, during the late war by Jno. P. Boyd. Place not identified:published not identified. date not identified-- Darstellung des in Baltimore am 27 und 28sten Julii, 1812, gemachten Angriffs auf die presfreyheit, und das leben der Bertheidiger defelben. Philadelphia: gedruct bey Conrad Zentler, in der Zwenten Stresse, unterhalb der Regs Strasse, 1812 -- Plan of an improved system of the money-concerns of the Union by Erick Bollman, M.D. Philadelphia: printed for the auther. Wiliam Fry, printer, Walnut, near Fifth Street, 1816; Articles of the Farmer's Bank of Lancaster. Place not idenifiied: Printed by Hugh Hamilton, date not identified.; Shaw & Shoemaker,

Subjects: Politics and government; United States - Politics and government - 1812-1815.; United States.; Three-quarters leather on marbled boards (Binding)

Additional Author: Yeates, Jasper,

Additional Corporate Author: United States. Congress. House.; Federal Party (U.S.)

Place: United States Connecticut Hartford.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection

Call Number: Book 461 n.d.

Andrew Ellicott

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Author: Diffenderffer, Frank Ried,

Date of Publication: 1901

not enter into the purposes of this article. Nowhere does the author give credit to any other man in surveying or design- ing the Capital City of the United States. While half a dozen handsome illustrations accompany it, the plot or survey of this French engineer, if he ever made one, is nowhere in

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Responsibility: by F. R. Diffenderffer.

Author: Diffenderffer, Frank Ried,

Place of Publication: Lancaster, Pa

Publisher: Lancaster County Historical Society,

Date of Publication: 1901

Physical Description: [57]-67 p. ; 23 cm.

Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 5, no. 3/4

Summary: This journal article addresses sureveyor Andrew Ellicott's role in the laying out of the District of Columbia as well as many other later other projects he led.

Subjects: Ellicott, Andrew, - 1754-1820.; United States Capitol (Washington, D.C.); Capitals (Cities); Washington (D.C.); United States - Capital and capitol.

Contained In: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 5, number 3/4 (1901), p. 57-67Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.5

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Andrew Ellicott, his life and letters

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Author: Mathews, Catharine Van Cortlandt.

Date of Publication: 1908

Call Number: 925 E46m

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Responsibility: by Catharine Van Cortlandt Mathews.

Author: Mathews, Catharine Van Cortlandt.

Place of Publication: New York

Publisher: The Grafton press

Date of Publication: 1908

Physical Description: x, 256 p. front., plates, ports., maps (1 fold.) plans, facsims. 23cm.

Notes: "One thousand copies of this book have been printed from type and the type distributed."

Summary: A U.S. surveyor who resided in Lancaster County. He helped map many of the territories west of the Appalachians, surveyed the boundaries of the District of Columbia, continued and completed Pierre Charles L'Enfant's work on the plan for Washington, D.C., and served as a teacher in survey methods for Meriwether Lewis.; Contents: 1. Parentage and early life 1754 - 1784. 2. Baltimore and the western boundary of Pennsylvania 1785. 3. Three boundaries and the first measurement of Niagara 1786-1790. 4. The city of Washington in the Territory of Columbia. 5. The road to Presqu' Isle Fort. 6. The Florida boundary 1796 - 1800. 7. The Florida boundary (continued). 8. The Florida boundary (continued). 9. The land office of Pennsylvania 1800 - 1812. 10. West Point and the last surveys 1812-1820. The book contains footnotes and an index.

Subjects: Ellicott, Andrew, - 1754-1820.; Atlantic States - Surveys.; Southern boundary of the United States.; Washington (D.C.) - Surveys.; Pennsylvania - Boundaries.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 925 E46m

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Acts passed at the third session of the Thirteenth Congress of the United States, : begun and held in the city of Washington, in the District of Columbia, on the nineteenth day of September, one thousand eight hundred and fourteen. : Published by authority

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American convention for promoting the abolition of slavery and improving the condition of the African race at Philadelphia, in October, 1819, to the people of the United States

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The American genealogist; a monthly magazine of genealogy and local history

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The American law journal and miscellaneous repertory

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An abridgment of the laws of Pennsylvania, from the year one thousand seven hundred, to the second day of April, one thousand eight hundred and eleven. : With references to reports of judicial decisions in the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania

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An accurate and interesting account of the hardships and sufferings of that band of heroes, who traversed the wilderness in the campaign against Quebec in 1775

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An Address of members of the House of Representatives of the Congress of the United States, to their constituents, on the subject of the war with Great-Britain

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Andrew Ellicott

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